What are some healthier bets for Chinese food?
Many people have the notion that it’s easy to eat a healthy Chinese restaurant meal because plenty of vegetables are served up. That’s not necessarily so. Meals in Chinese restaurant can quickly become unhealthy and loaded with calories. Consider starting with spare ribs or eggroll, moving on to Sweet and Sour pork or Shrimp with Fried Rice and finishing off with Fried Bananas. Healthy? Not so! It is, however, with skills and strategies in hand, possible to eat healthy Chinese restaurant meals. The watchwords are pick and choose your dishes carefully, enjoy a bowl of soup to fill you up, and share dishes with your dining partners to put portion control into action. Chinese food can be high in sodium – choose dishes with lighter sauces, request light soy-sauce be use (when food is cooked to order), order brown rice rather than fried rice and control your portions. Less food = less sodium. Here are a few healthier items you’ll find on most Chinese menus whether the restaurant lines a mal
